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September 19, 2005

ActiveWindowStatus.app 06:46 PM, 0 Comments

Okay, after my good friend Lonnie showed me how I could hide the app, here is the version that works as originally intended: ActiveWindowStatus.app. It looks as though Lonnie wrote a more elaborate version of the same idea. I guess I'm not reinventing the wheel...

Just untar it and drop it into your Library/Scripts directory. Then you can get it to start up automatically when you log in using the Accounts section of System Preferences and it'll happily run in the background like a good little daemon should :)

September 18, 2005

iChatActiveWindow.app 08:40 PM, 1 Comments

After using iChatStatus long ago for setting my status to my current application (and after it broke in Tiger and since Tiger had the functionality of setting your status to your current song and the author of iChatStatus decided to not make it work with Tiger because of that and this is a really long sentence...) I finally got around to making a little AppleScript that sits there watching the finder and updating iChat with your current app every 10 seconds.

You can get it here if you want to try it out. Stick it in your Login Items in your Account Prefs, and it'll start when you log in. My only problem is that I can't get it to hide from the dock. The checkbox to hide the little script in the Login Items doesn't hide it. I also tried to put some code in there to try to get it to hide, but it doesn't. If anyone has any clue, feel free to tell me :)

Oh, by the way, if you haven't got an Apple, you're missing the boat, man.

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